The headline on a recent Reuters story caught my attention:
Debt and the American church
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Crystal Cathedral: Empty pews, hollow story
Once again, we the people who care about religion news are seeing another sad round of thin mainstream press stories about the decline and fall of the Rev. Robert H. Schuller and his family’s megachurch monument — the Crystal Cathedral.
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What LDS baptism for the dead is and isn't
In my guilt files are several stories about the Mormon practice of baptism for the dead. Many stories have just done an inadequate job of explaining this doctrine and practice of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Sex, Facebook and the campus covenant
On one level, it’s easy to say that private colleges and universities are voluntary associations and, thus, can limit the freedoms of their students, faculty and staff in a wide variety of ways. After all, students do not have to study there, teachers do not have to teach there and staff members do not have to work there.
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Pod people: The world is not doomed
The other day I mentioned that reader Jerry submitted a story about Harold Camping repenting of his false predictions of the rapture and end of the world. We wondered how much coverage of the repentance we’d see relative to last year’s significant coverage. While the repentance won’t make it onto a list of top ten news stories for 2012, it actually has received some coverage.
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Santeria, Catholicism and Cuba
What is a Catholic Cuban? Or, better yet, who can be a Catholic in Cuba? An Associated Press story that looks at the forthcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba through the prism of his refusal to meet with Santeria leaders makes some claims on these points. But are they valid?
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Got news? Communion for a Buddhist?
While the late Pope John Paul II — soon to be called St. John Paul the Great — was known as a strong supporter of interfaith dialogues that attempted to build trust, while declining to erase any true boundaries.
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IVF after Death
Bottle of mine, it’s you I’ve always wanted!Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?  Skies are blue inside of you,  The weather’s always fine;For … There ain’t no Bottle in all the worldLike that dear little Bottle of mine.
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The sins of Harold Camping
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